The following articles are included in this anthology on Chicano speech: (1) "Mexican Spanish," D.N. Cardenas; (2) "The Archaic and the Modern in the Spanish of New Mexico," J. Ornstein; (3) "Problemas Lexicograficos del Espanol del Sudoeste," A.M. Espinosa, Jr.; (4) "Associative Interference in New Mexican Spanish," J.B. Rael; (5) "Some Aspects of Arizona Spanish," A.C. Post; (6) "Dialectal and Nonstandard Forms in Texas Spanish," D.M. Lance; (7) "Variations in Los Angeles Spanish Phonology," R.N. Phillips, Jr.; (8) "El Habla y la Educacion de los Ninos de Origen Mexicano en Los Angeles," Y. Lastra de Suarez; (9) "Chicano Spanish Dialects and Education," E. Garcia; (10) "Spanish-English Bilingualism in San Antonio, Texas," J.B. Sawyer; (11) "Speech Mixture in New Mexico: The Influence of the English Language on New Mexican Spanish," A.M. Espinosa; (12) "Adaptation of English Borrowing," J.D. Bowen; (13) "Some Lexical Characteristics of San Jose Spanish," A. Beltramo and A. de Porcel; (14) "Spanish-English Code Switching," D.M. Lance; (15) "Cognitive Aspects of Bilingual Communication," J.J. Gumperz and E. Hernandez-Chavez; (16) "Chicano Multilingualism and Multiglossia," F. Penalosa; (17) "Social Functions of Language in a Mexican-American Community," G.C. Barker; (18) "Pachuco: An American-Spanish Argot and Its Social Function in Tucson, Arizona," G.C. Barker; (19) "Assessing Language Maintenance in Spanish-Speaking Communities in the Southwest," A.D. Cohen; and (20) "The Acquisition of Grammatical Structures by Mexican-American Children," G. Gonzalez. (AM)